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Originally Posted by emellaich
I have it on good authority that he is alive. I understand that he heard something about the color plans coming out of discussions in China. My source overheard him muttering: 'how could they pull the slate blue'. The he said something about: 'walking the d*mn plank'. He also seemed to be stuttering something about a parrot pecking his eyes out.
He was last seen in a nondescript rental car heading for the hills and as far away from the sea as possible. I wonder if anyone ever told him that there are inland pirates in them thar hills of Arkansas -- probably about 100 miles northwest of Toad Suck.
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Close. If you are thinking of Toadsuck Inn/Ferry, that is in Conway, about 80 miles south of me. The Toad Suck Quarry or OneStop is about 120 miles south.
No pirates down there. Least ways, none worth their salt.
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Originally Posted by 6charlong
I have to disagree.
This list tries to compare unlike devices. The Pocket Pro is the only one that offers an eInk screen in a smaller size (which some like), with tighter resolution (200 dpi versus 160 dpi), faster page turns, a more powerful CPU, a user replaceable battery, and support for secure books published in both ePub and eReader format.
Barnes and Noble has opened an online store to sell books at competitive prices in those formats. I’ve used eReader for several years (I’ve even formatted a few books in it myself) and read a lot more professionally formatted books in eReader, ePub and BBeB formats. The fact is that a book of fiction and nonfiction books without complex graphics can be as well formatted in eReader as anything. I’ve installed the new, free B&N eReader rendering engine on my PC and I like it better than the old eReader and a lot better than the Sony Library. eReader has the best, that is to say the fairest, DRM scheme available for those publishers who insist on using DRM and those readers who want to read the newest fiction.
In sum, although no one knows what Sony will do this fall, for now the Pocket Pro is the only device with all these features, all of which are things I want in a book reader. I think $199 to $210 is a good and reasonable price. What will be reasonable in a year’s time no one knows, but that’s the nature of competition. I learned a long time ago that it never pays to keep waiting for the best electronic... anything. It just keeps getting better, and Jenkie will have to keep competing too.
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I'd have to agree. You can't just compare device and prices. You have to include everything about the device and compare it to other devices in the same way. The Pocket Pro is advanced compared to the Kindle 1, even the Kindle 2 or DX. The fact that you get a faster, higher res, more advanced device for the same price as a K1 refurb, you can't go wrong.